✍️Science Writing News Roundup #175
New open access course – data-driven animation for science communication + Generative AI for journalists: Discovering what data can do.
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🗃️Resources
New open access course – data-driven animation for science communication: This course trains students in data-driven storytelling that promotes research and science communication for the benefit of communities and policymakers on local and global scales. Each learner will create a scientific animation that tells a story with data to better communicate scientific results – along the way they will learn programming, science writing, and technical animation skills.
“Generative AI for journalists: Discovering what data can do:” Knight Center opens registration for new hands-on online course.
4 things to know about OSINT for environmental investigations: How two experts use open-source intelligence to uncover investigative stories.
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📑Articles
Opinion: Putting a microscope to science journalism. It’s impossible to accurately and consistently predict the future of any technology. So how should we invest in new technologies if we can’t rely on their predicted outcomes? It starts with proper scientific communication, writes Zhane Yamin.
Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of: A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival.
A Day in the Life of Kristin Ozelli. Kristin Ozelli is deputy editor of The Transmitter, which went live at an event at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Like Spectrum, it’s a trade publication, but for neuroscientists of all stripes, at all career stages.
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💾Videos
A Pathway into Science Journalism ― Building Trust, Breaking Barriers. Nicole Mortillaro, CBC senior science reporter, discusses her entry into science journalism, the challenge of doing trustworthy stories in a time of widespread disinformation, and her experience as a woman of color in a realm where diverse voices are still emerging.
Fallout: What Would a Nuclear Strike Inside the US Look Like? The U.S. is quietly beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks.
KSJ 40th Anniversary Panel: The Present and Future of Science Journalism.
Press Briefing: How to Safeguard Against Mis-/Disinformation at COP28.
From protests to politics: How people follow news about climate change.
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🏆Opportunities
Calls for pitches to write about neuroscience, data science, the environment + Fellowships and grants for science writers 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
🌏News
Writer on Dek: 2023 NASW Perlman Virtual Mentoring Program offers student journalism opportunities and summer awards.
Medical education must include the field's Nazi past, expert panel urges: All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to a report from The Lancet.
The Climate Crisis Advisory Group calls for unprecedented interventions to mitigate 1.5°C climate overshoot – new report.
🎨Events
The Science Journalists Association of India Conference (November 24-25, 2023)
Media's Role in MENA: Shaping Climate Change Discourse @COP28 (December 4, 2023)
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🌴Jobs and internships
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